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  • Preference Measurement in Health

    Series Book 24 - Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research
    Measurements of individual benefits of different health and medical interventions are fundamental for prioritizing among different alternative uses of resources in the healthcare sector. While psychometric measures do not necessarily provide information sufficient for assigning relative values to different health states, preference-based approaches produce measures that allow comparisons of such ... Read more

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  • Pheromone Biochemistry

    Pheromone Biochemistry covers chapters on Lepidoptera, ticks, flies, beetles, and even vertebrate olfactory biochemistry. The book discusses pheromone production and its regulation in female insects; as well as reception, perception, and degradation of pheromones by male insects. The text then describes the pheromone biosynthesis and its regulation and the reception and catabolism of pheromones. ... Read more

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  • Comparative Cognition

    Integrating developments from psychology, ethology and neuroscience, this is an undergraduate introduction to cognitive processes across species. The authors merge classic studies and contemporary research to give students a full picture of the evolving field of comparative cognition. Engaging students in the discipline from its roots in animal learning and evolutionary biology through to current ... Read more

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  • Reinventing American Health Care

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  • Venom Doc

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  • Swimming with Piranhas at Feeding Time

    My Life Doing Dumb Stuff with Animals

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    Why the Medical System is Dangerous to Your Health and How to Get Through it Alive

    Surviving Your Doctors, with its in-depth explanations, guidance, and direction will be the basic training manual patients need to work their way through the health care maze. It serves as a map of the medical minefield, told from the perspective of a doctor yet designed to reveal the faults in the system and the things that can and do go wrong during the course of both routine and special ... Read more

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  • Evaluating Health Promotion

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    Insects for Kids - Entomology

    Series series Children's Zoology Books
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